[paulddraper]

Surely being written in a non-Rust language is not responsible for an extra 40ms of latency, right?

Or is rust really that magic?

[osti]

Of course not, it's designed differently from the original S3. AWS came out with this to compete with Azure premium blob storage, which has very good first byte latency, and Azure had it 4 years ago..

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/premium-block-blob-st...